John Boyega, Jack Reynor, Felicity Jones & Jodie Turner-Smith To Star In IRA Thriller ‘Borderland’

Deadline is reporting that John Boyega (Star Wars), Jack Reynor (Midsommar),  Felicity Jones (The Theory Of Everything), & Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim) are set to star in the IRA thriller Borderland. The film will directed by director the Guard Brothers (The Uninvited).

The film will follow an Irish paramilitary, Michael (Reynor), who witnesses the shooting of his pregnant wife at the hands of an SAS sergeant named Tempest (Boyega) when a border ambush goes wrong. When Tempest is sent back to London to lead a covert counter-terrorist operation, Michael joins a ruthless active service unit (ASU) wreaking havoc in the capital. For Michael, the mission is personal – to hunt down Tempest – and he’ll stop at nothing to avenge his wife’s death.

Chris Coen (Funny Games), Rebecca Brown, Felicity Jones’s Piecrust Productions and Rocket Science will produce the film, with Jones as executive producer. The plan is for film to shoot on location in the UK in early 2021.